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Past Voices Ancestor Letters Arranged by Surname

If you prefer to choose a letter by geographic location, please use the index of States.

Go to Past Voices Blog for letters that are NOT in the index below. Be sure to check there if you don't find your ancestors in the index below. Or just go and read them anyway because the letters are so poignant and historically interesting! Note that they are NOT indexed, you have to scroll down each month's archives at Past Voices Blog to look for any of interest to you

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Allen, Dr. B.B. , Freeport CA to Dr. Chas. Carothers of Missouri 1869Andrews Christopher, Letters from Minnesota and Dakota 1856
Letter of February 1969 from William Xavier Andrews in Vietnam about the Tet Offensive Saturday night February 22, 1969Atkins1863 Civil War Letter from George B. Atkins to his father from Camp Douglas, Illinois [ CIVIL WAR]

Letter from Helen C. "Ella" Early, born
October 13, 1896 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to her brother Edward James Early, World War I and her sister Margaret Mary C. Early

Letter from Jessica Early (nee Jessica Agnes O'Keefe, born Oconto Wisconsin,
daughter of Dr. Patrick J. O'Keefe and Elizabeth Hoeffel) to her husband James Edward Early, World War I 1917 Oconto Wisconsin

Early February 14, 1918 letter from James William Early of Green Bay, Wisconsin to his brother, Captain Edward James Early in World War I
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Helen C. (Ella) Early to her brother Edward James Early & sister Margaret Mary C. Early, Missouri 1918
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World War I letters to Edward Early from Jessica Agnes O'Keefe Early
Eberlein Collection - Civil War letters from the Eberlein brothers George and Ferdinand to parents 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
Letter to D. S. Edwards, M. D., Surgeon U. S. S. North Carolina, New York, from his brother, H. Edwards, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 20, 1845